Poems for Company – June 23rd, 2025

“One Word”: The poems on today’s show implicitly urge us to consider how strange language is when we examine it up close.  Each of today’s poems puzzle over an individual word.  Billy Collins, “Tension,” from Aimless Love: New and Selected Poems (Random House, 2013).  Shakespeare, “Sonnet 135.”  Robert Wrigley, “Lovely,” from The True Account of Myself as a…

ARTS – Live & Local! June 13th, 2025

Friday, June 13th at 3pm ARTS – Live & Local! Carol Newman & guests: Senior Court Princesses Emily Herzberg, Ava Thornton, Olive Thompson & Chaperone Melissa Schacher plus Miss Scandinavia Queen 2024-25 Audrey Cereghino for the 2025 Scandinavian Midsummer Festival at the Clatsop County Fairgrounds. Artists Agnes Field and Kate Speranza on “Sointula: A Place…

Beach Grass Roots – June 12th, 2025

In this episode of Beach Grass Roots, we talk with the Lower Columbia Q Center, a nonprofit resource center providing outreach, education and charity for the 2SLGBTQIA+ community and allies of the Lower Columbia Region of Oregon and Washington. The LCQC is the June 2025 beneficiary of the Astoria Co-op’s Change for Community program, which asks…

ARTS – Live & Local! June 6th, 2025

Friday, June 6th at 3pm ARTS – Live & Local! Carol Newman & guests: Violinist Audrey Cereghino & Cellist Dylan Morrow, soloists, & Violist Betsey Ellerbroek, in concert with the North Oregon Coast Symphony at the Nehalem Elementary School & the Charlene Larsen Center for the Performing Arts. Barbara Anne Gaidosh, Oregon Folksinger, in concert…

Talk of Our Towns June 5th, 2025

Today we will be discussing how new concepts of retirement are changing individual lives, and indeed our entire culture.  It is my pleasure to have two thoughtful highly educated experienced professional therapists to explore this topic. My guests are Astoria based IFS (Internal Family Systems) therapist and trainer, Katelyn Staecker and her dear friend of…